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Table 4. ( Continued )

Content
Ownership
and
Limitations:
Ownership of
Copyright

No ownership in personal
identifiers such as Apple
ID or email.

“OpenDrive does not
own any data,
information or material
that you submit to the
Service or store in your
account ("Data").”
“You are the legal
owner, representative,
or otherwise has a
legitimate right to the
property or act on the
owners behalf and all
data contained therein
sent to OpenDrive.”

“You retain full
ownership to your
stuff. We don't
claim any ownership
to any of it.”

None stated but
the Amazon
Web Service
Customer
Agreement
indicates in 8.1
that “between
you and us, you
or your
licensors own
all right, title,
and interest in
and to Your
Content.”

Apple does not claim
ownership of content
submitted by a user.

Content
Ownership
and
Limitations:
Content

There are a number of
prohibited uses regarding
content, some which are
protected by law, some are
indeed unlawful:
“unlawful, harassing,
threatening, harmful,
tortious, defamatory,
libelous, abusive, violent,
obscene, vulgar, invasive
of another's privacy,
hateful, racially or
ethnically offensive, or
otherwise objectionable”

A long list of content or
service exclusions
including bulk
solicitations, data
mining, “unlawful,
harassing, libelous,
abusive, harassing,
tortious, defamatory,
threatening, harmful,
abusive, libelous,
invasive of another's
privacy, vulgar,
obscene or otherwise
objectionable material
of any kind or nature or
which is harmful to
minors in any way”
(some of this is lawful
content!); infringing,
harmful code, robots or
other activity harmful
to the service,
unauthorized access
(see 18 U.S.C. § 1030)
or “harass or interfere
with another user's use
and enjoyment of the
Service.”

Restrictions on
infringing or
unlawful content
(“Please do not
copy, upload,
download, or share
files unless you have
the right to do so.”)
and no “spyware or
any other malicious
software.”

Restrictions on
speech
protected by the
First
Amendment.
“You may not
share files (a)
that contain
defamatory,
threatening,
abusive,
pornographic,
or otherwise
objectionable
material, (b)
that advocate
bigotry, hatred,
or illegal dis-
crimination, or
(c) if sharing
those

and

Conduct
Restrictions

files

violates any

law, any

intellectual
property,
publicity,
privacy, or
other right of
others, or any
license or other
agreement by
which you are
bound.”